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There may be some common ground between the Occupiers and the Tea Partiers, but apparently not when it comes to Black Friday. The Tea Party is fighting back against Occupy Black Friday with its own campaign, BUYcott Black Friday, CNBC reports. As opposed to the Occupiers, who would rather you sit out today’s shopping extravaganza, the BUYcotters want you to go out and spend money to stimulate the economy.

The Occupy Black Friday movement urges shoppers to avoid publicly traded retailers. But the counter-movement, organized by a Tea Party coalition of anti-Occupy groups, says that’s a terrible idea. “At a time when our economy is most fragile and ratings agencies are talking about another downgrade of the US credit rating, it's completely irresponsible for Occupy Wall Street to attempt to bring the US economy to a halt on the busiest shopping day of the year,” says a spokesperson in a press release. Click for more on Occupy Black Friday.

"The Occupy Black Friday movement urges shoppers to avoid publicly traded retailers" Since when does avoiding 'publicly traded retailers' mean "don't shop at all"? The hardest part about shopping local is FINDING the local shops that sell what your looking for...or finding local shops that only carry American made items.

Will9371

Nov 26, 2011 12:59 AM CST

Anyone remember how the Tea Party was telling businesses not to hire anyone a while back? http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/10/20/348168/tea-party-group-businesses-hurt-obama/ Clearly the only reason they came up with this buycott was to oppose OWS...wait a minute, what if we use reverse-psychology on them? "Hey tea-partiers! I'm a radical liberal socialist atheist and I want to cut taxes on the rich because that's the LIBERAL thing to do! Oh yeah, socialism is all about balancing the budget through tax cuts and cutting social services. And don't you dare try to reduce carbon emissions or GreenPeace will totally cut you up."